Fitness
Back to the Trails!
I put in two more “mini-rides” on Wednesday and Friday, just to keep the legs loose and focus on good technique while riding nice and easy from a fitness perspective. Wednesday I took the cross bike (and cross tires) through Bayview, and Friday I was finally able to get back out on the Grant Park [...]
Periodized Training for Mountain Bike and Cyclocross Seasons
I’ve been working quite a bit lately on developing a year-round training plan that will help me maintain fitness from year to year and keep me motivated during the off season to stay active. While training for Ironman, we did a lot of periodization, which essentially incorporates strategic amounts of volume and intensity, along with [...]
Feels Like Spring
Sorry about the blast, just catching up with a few posts from over the weekend. Today was gorgeous - the thermometer read 48 degrees in the car on the way home, and didn’t drop much before I got started. The roads are nice and clean now, so I took a nice easy ride up and down the [...]
Week 2
Today was a nice little ride on a COLD start to the week – 26 degress with a 15mph wind out of the west (crosswind for my route today). The mountain bike needs a good cleaning, and the roads are relatively clean, so I took the cross bike. This was pretty static zone 3-4, with [...]
Week End Totals and Core
Saturday core workout: Thoracic Spine Extension and Rotation 3×10 each side Wall Slides with Chin Tuck 3×10 Reverse crunch 3×12 Bridge 3×15 Good mornings 3×10 Weekly Totals I’m taking my first stab at doing some periodization with my training throughout the year. There’s not a lot of reading out there on periodization specifically for cyclocross, [...]
Friday Ride
We’re out visiting Trisha’s family in Dickeyville today, so I was able to take in some new scenery. This is a really beautiful area of the state, the area which wasn’t flattened out by the glacier drifts, and I love riding here. The consequence of the land not being smoothed out is that I get [...]
Vanilla Ice Ice Baby
No riding on Tuesday, but got a good core workout in instead. Tuesday is my late day at work which means I have meetings until 5p and don’t get home until close to 6pm. As I write this, it almost sounds funny that I consider 5pm to be late, as six months ago it would [...]
Snow Biking Two Days in a Row
We’ve been watching the forecast for the last few days, and looking forward to the mid-30′s they had been promising so we could get out and go for a hike or something together. Well, it never got warmer than about 28, so I ventured out on my own. What I missed in the forecast was [...]
